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My experience here at the hospital was amazing. I met a lot of nice people, I was able to see things that I would never see on a normal day, and I was able to learn something new everyday. While being here I learned that you need to be appreciative of your life, because you never know what will happen. Also I learned that you really need to take care of your self, such as eating healthy, exercises, and just being safe. I wish I could stay that's how much I enjoyed myself.

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These pictures are pieces of art around the hospital to make the environment of the hospital more welcoming

POL ANSWERS

How was your work as an intern meaningful to your education?

My work as an intern was very meaningful to my education. I have learned that school is a very important thing in life, even though sometimes I may not want to go or learn what I am being taught that what I learn now will be with me for the rest of life. If I want to follow in my desire of being a doctor I really need to get use to school because there are many years you need to complete in order to become a doctor. I have also learned that studying and reading is an important thing to do, because that is how you expand your vocabulary and your knowledge.


How was your work significant or meaningful to the world beyond school and your specific internship site?

My work here has been significant because I had a small part in helping the patient feel better. Even if I just went to get warm blankets, pillows, water, or just show them where the bathroom is, or just by smiling. I made a small impact in making them feel better and by just doing the small things people truly do remember.

What did you learn about your own work from your internship project?

From working at the hospital I have learned that people come in for problems they think are serious, in most cases they are, but from learning this I learned that when they come in you have to have humility and understanding and there are circumstances. First off you see the patient you introduce yourself to them and their family or friend, and you check with them to see what their problem is. After hearing their story and their complaints we help them to greatest ability we can. While being here in the emergency room I have seen and experience a lot. I have seen minor things such as someone fell and they just needed stitches or someone got something in their eye and needed their eyes cleaned. I have also seen more traumatic things such as a man losing his eye from surfing in his daily routine, patients who have diabetes and who don’t follow what they are suppose to do and are very close to death, and a man dying from cardiac arrest. From seeing these minor to tragic things you learn to have an appreciation and knowledge of that could have been me or a family member or a friend. It may sound selfish but it is the truth. When you are here you learn humility and appreciation for what you are doing to help these people. I may have just observed but just being able to know that the patient I have just seen will be okay is the greatest feeling of all time.

What new appreciations did you develop while working as an intern? Why?

I have learned to appreciate my life because you never know what can happen, a drunken driver can come and hit you from behind while you are just paying attention to what is in front of you. Form seeing these patients and just knowing that could have been you, you learn to live your life to fullest and to appreciate it and everyone in it.

What qualities or characteristics did you see in the people around you that you want to develop in yourself? Why?

While being here and being able to see the people around me and how they work I have notice that they come to work here because they love their job and the love helping people. They don’t work for the money and they don’t complain at all. The people here are very nice and just from seeing how they work in teams and they all get along it just made me feel like I was apart of the environment. From seeing these people characteristics I would like to develop would be their patients. Sometimes they do get patients who are hard to deal with and they never lose their temper and they are always polite and professional. I would like to develop this because I believe that it is a very import characteristic because it shows maturity.

How did your view of life beyond high school change or develop during your time as an intern?

I have learned to take care of yourself. Never do anything that will affect you later on in life, even if it just one smoke or one drink it will have an effect on you and if it does not effect you now it will effect you later on in life. I have seen so many people just in bad conditions because they did not take care of themselves. You need to learn how to eat right, exercise, and don’t follow others because that choice will lead you into the wrong direction.

What new questions has your internship inspired you to ask about our world? What has it made you wonder about? What are you moved to go out and do or learn about on your own time?

Being at my internship really has pushed me to be healthy because from seeing so many sick people it scares me that one day that can happen to me. So I try to eat healthy exercise to keep a healthy life. I really want to tell people that you are affected by what you put in your body from the McDonalds fries all the way to a shot you had. So I want people to know being healthy is a wonderful thing to be because in the long run it will save you a lot of trouble. My mentor told me the worse thing to be is old and fat because then your body will just shut don, because it is not healthy and from all the weight it makes it even harder for the body to work. So please stay healthy

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Shawn Evans, M.D., FACEP
Attending Physician Department of Emergency Medicine
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla



How long have you been a doctor?

What made you want to become a Emergency doctor?

What college degree(s) did you have to get for becoming a emergency doctor?

Did you have extra training for becoming a emergency doctor?

Has your position given you the opportunity to travel to other countries to volunteer when in need?

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From working at the hospital you are exposed to a lot. you see people who really do need help. While i have been here I have seen people who have lost their eye. I have seen people who drink to solve their problems, people who have fallen and just needed stitches. Everyday when I leave the hospital there is always something that will effect me for the rest of my life, such as just being a healthy person to caring for the people I know because you never know what will happen to them. These pictures show where the doctors, nurses, and the A.P work. These people are the reason why the people I see get well. From telling what medicine the patient needs to giving and making sure the patient okay, and to making calls to other doctors so the main doctors can get a second opinion on what the should do to help a patient. 

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In the typical workday i work directly with 3 different people the nurse, the doctor, and the patient. When the patient comes in we help them, and once we help them we have also helped their family and everyone who knows them. When I work with the doctor I usually follow him and visit with patients. we go into the room, and we go through the list of background questions to figure out why that patient is in the emergency room. Being able to work with and experiencing what a doctor actually does and goes through is a wonderful thing. It shows and proves that hard work really does pay off, just from these doctors and nurses putting serious hours into to education they have changed so many peoples lives. I think the people who i do not directly deal with are the people who put the paper work together. These people are affected by us because when we see the patient we need to write down everything we do, and from that they record it and figure out how much the patient needs to be billed or how much their insurance needs to b billed. At my site they use peer critic which we do at school. If I was in charge I would have the board of all the patients be available on the cell phone including their chart. i would also have a bar code on he charts so you can scan the charts and the dictations will automatically print out. i think from these two changes the hospital would be even more efficient. This is a picture of the trauma room where patients who are severely hurt or sick come in here and everyone works on them at once, such as radiology, blood work, etc. 

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The main thing I saw this week was a CPR. Which is when a patient comes in from the ambulance and is automatically assisted with CPR. To save his life. Before the patient comes in a team of nurses with one doctor get everything ready before the patient comes in because he is between life and death matters. So the man came in and he was assisted, the team of nurses did all they could do for him but he did not make it. So my mentor and I went and told his family about the loss, it was a tough thing to do and it was very hard to watch their reaction. This was memorable because this Man was just like me a day before, he was walking around and having a good time with his family, but because of his weight and his diabetes he died from Cardiac Arrest. From being expose to this it made me just want to stay healthy and keep from becoming over weight. My highlight this week was seeing a newly born baby. This baby was the cutest thing ever, when I saw it, it just made me smile. I wish I was able to take a picture of it, but it is against the law.

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At the end of my day I thought to myself what motivates people to come and work here everyday. I thought that they come here because they love the feeling of being able to help someone everyday. This is always my answer for everything, but this answer is the truth. The nurses and doctors come to work with smiles on their faces because they love the feeling of being able to help others everyday. They sometimes have patients that do not want to cooperate and they start to cause headaches but the nurses and the doctors keep the thought that these people are sick and came here for help, and that's what they are suppose to do. A question my internship has made me want to ask the world is Why would you hurt yourself? I want to ask this question because from being here I have seen alcoholics, drug users, people who want to take their own life, and over weight people. From seeing these people it just makes me think why would people use drugs, alcohol, and just eat. From being here the main problem is weight. Most of the people who come in are fat, which causes them to be sick. What I want the world to really know is don't hurt your self, because you are just conflicting pain upon yourself. So if you need to stop using drugs and alcohol I would stop, even if you just have a smoke and drink here and there you are still hurting your body. If you eat to much stop because in the long run you are going to be affected tremendously, I have seen people with bad legs and hips just from being fat, to a man dieing from having diabetes. Drugs and Alcohol and Obesity are serious things that can be avoided. I really want to learn about what type of education you need to become a maternity doctor. Today I saw a new born baby, and I thought it was the cutest thing on earth, it made me want to become a doctor who like delivers babies, and cares for them.



Questions:

I am still going to ask the previous questions, I still need to get background information though.

Mentor Questions

Questions I may be asking my mentor.

1. Did you always want to be a doctor? What was your previous job before you were a doctor? 

2. What was your experience like in college? 

3. How long have you been a doctor? What made you want to become a Emergency doctor?

4. What college degree(s) did you have to get for becoming a emergency doctor? Did you have extra training for becoming a emergency doctor?

5. Has your position given you the opportunity to travel to other countries to volunteer when in need?

6. If you never became what you are now, what job do you think you would be doing?

7. If you could teach someone anything from your life experience what would it be?

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Choice A: What characteristics and qualities do you see in the people at your internship that you'd like to develop in yourself? Some of these qualities and characteristics could be creativity, empathy, risk-taking, ambitiousness, honesty, fairness, and so on. There are so many qualities and characteristics that people could have, so look around and think of a few good ones that you see in the people you work with.

At my internship people go to work just to help others. The people at my internship love their job, and they never complain. Sometimes they may have a difficult patient and they may cause some frustration, but they they always remember that they need help and thats why they work there. I am already a caring person, but I would like to have the same level of care that the doctors and nurses have for their patients. The people at my internship also have a lot of patience which i would also like to have. These people save other peoples lives every day and I hope to have the same courage, caring, and patient attitude they have when I go into this field of work. 

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Project description

Internship site: Scripps Memorial La Jolla 

Department: Emergency Room

Project Title: The effect of teenage drugs and alcohol

General Description: Statistics to show how many teens are crucially effected by drugs and alcohol when the get older

Learning Objectives: Affects of alcohol 

Organization/Company Objectives & Benefits: From this mini project the company can not really benefit from this information, we came up with this project to educate other people about the abuse of drugs and alcohol. 

Schedule: Monday-Tuesday 8:00- 4:30 Wednesday-Thursday, Sunday  12:00- 8:00

Academic Skills: The only academic skill that I can think of would be writing 

Technical Skills: researching

Collaboration—Skills and Opportunities: throughout my internship I have the opportunity of being exposed to drugs and alcohol in the emergency room.

Exhibition Plans: We are still trying to figure out because my site is always busy and it would be hard to have a POL there.

Schedule & Timelines: whenever I get the chance between following Dr. Evans around. this project is not a must do project. Since I do work in the Emergency room I do have the opportunity to be able to experience what Emergency doctors are able to experience, so we try to spend most of my valuable time on the floor visiting patients  rather than being stuck in a office doing research and paper work. 

My week.

I have to start off with i love my internship and it really makes me want to become a doctor just so I can live like this everyday. This week I started off organizing dictations for about an hour and the I went off to the Emergency floor, where all the action is. this week I watched my mentor put stitches in this older mans head. The older man was hit by a surfboard, and the surfboard made a deep cut in his forehead. So my mentor first sowed the tissue back together and then stitched the skin back. While I was there this week I was surprised by the fact the most people in the emergency room are older people over the age of 65. I was also surprised by the fact they have a lot of free food, I know that does not really have anything to do with my internship, but i think it is interesting and a neat little fun fact. The people I usually work with are Dr. Evans my mentor, and Ms. Claudia Casco who is also like my mentor. These to people are the nicest people on earth, they actually care about me and treat me as if I was actually working at the hospital. 

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For my interview for my mentor i would like to know how he got to his level of profession. I would ask what classes he took in college, how were his grades in high school, and what things should i focus on if i want to become a doctor. This interview would take place during any free time we have. 

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Like i said before my project will most likely be about how teens are effected by drugs and alcohol or about economics and health care. 

Internship 4

Since I work in the Emergency room I can not really do a project, but My Mentor, Darren and I came up with an idea of I can research information about a part of medicine or health care in general and present it to the class. I can present information all the way from how teens are affected by drugs and alcohol (explain actually cases to the class ) to how a simple mistake of not reading what hospital a patient is suppose to go to can waste hundred thousand dollars all from one mistake. 

Project Ideas

So far my project really are tasks that I have, such as organizing dictations putting them into the system so that the people can be billed correctly. At my site i really would like to learn what a doctor really does, what it takes to be a doctor, and what i can do now to work toward that goal.  From working at my internship i have really become interested in becoming a doctor, from what i have seen so far it really seems like something i would enjoy doing. So far there are no needs that I can address that i can think of.

Internship #2

Today was my second day of internship. i think the best thing i have done at my internship was meeting everyone and locating everything at my site. Everything I do at my internship is interesting, because i am in the E.R so there is really no dull moment. I have been paying attention and taking notes of what a doctor really does. for the future I really want to focus on what type of medicine i want to study in, and i also want to get use to reading and memorizing things, because it will help me later on in the future. 

Internship # 1

First Day at Internship (:

Dr. Evans and I in the Trauma room, where patients are sent for serious cases such as, car accidents, or when they are trying to bring someone back to life.

Me where I work for half the day organizing dictations, and its also where I eat lunch.

Due to the HIPPA Regulations I was not allowed to take most of my pictures for confidential reasons.

Questions:

Has there been a Increase of patients since the recession?

No, there has not been an increase of patients we were not affected by the recession because we are able to see anyone, even if the government pays or not.

That was the only question Dr. Evans could disclose due to the HIPPA Regulations

My Day at Internship

Today was my birthday and also the first day of internship. I walked dropped off by the ambulance, and i walked through the emergency doors straight to my office where I met Ms. Claudia and Dr. Evans along with some other doctors. For the first part of my day I worked in the doctor's office. I started off with organizing dictations then Dr. Evans made a call to get me some scrubs then I was off to the Emergency floor. I saw a wide range of things from people with hurt backs to people with personal problems. I started at 12:00 and ended at 8:35. The first day was filled with excitement and there was never a dull moment. I followed Dr. Evans around, and I met a lot of different people, I was exposed to things that I couldn't have even imagined in my head. From the first day I have learned so much, from how to deal with people to what a doctor actually does while you wait to be seen. I am looking forward to the rest of the month I feel that this internship is going to effect me a lot in ways I couldn't describe.